Transcribed from the 1913 Methuen & Co. edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org
POEMS
BY
OSCAR WILDE
WITH THE BALLAD OF
READING GAOL
* * * * *
METHUEN & CO. LTD.
36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
LONDON
_Twelfth Edition_
_First Published_—
_Ravenna_ _1878_
_Poems_ _1881_
,, _Fifth Edition_ _1882_
_The Sphinx_ _1894_
_The Ballad of Reading Gaol_ _1898_
_First Issued by Methuen and Co._ (_Limited _March 1908_
Editions on Handmade Paper and Japanese Vellum_)
_Seventh Edition_ (_F’cap. 8vo_). _September 1909_
_Eighth Edition_ ( ,, ,, ) _November 1909_
_Ninth Edition_ ( ,, ,, ) _December 1909_
_Tenth Edition_ ( ,, ,, ) _November 1910_
_Eleventh Edition_ ( ,, ,, ) _December 1911_
_Twelfth Edition_ ( ,, ,, ) _April 1913_
NOTE
_This collection of Wilde’s Poems contains the volume of_ 1881 _in its
entirety_, ‘_The Sphinx_’, ‘_The Ballad of Reading Gaol_,’ _and_
‘_Ravenna_.’ _Of the Uncollected Poems published in the Uniform Edition
of_ 1908, _a few_, _including the Translations from the Greek and the
Polish_, _are omitted_. _Two new poems_, ‘_Désespoir_’ _and_ ‘_Pan_,’_
which I have recently discovered in manuscript_, _are now printed for the
first time_. _Particulars as to the original publication of each poem
will be found in_ ‘_A Bibliography of the Poems of Oscar Wilde_,’ _by
Stuart Mason_, _London_ 1907.
_ROBERT ROSS_.